Edition inked in red on right sheet, left of center, below gray strip: 9/20

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Nevelson is best known for her monochromatic, painted wood relief sculptures that combine abstract forms with found objects. Here she applied a similar assemblage technique to her graphic works. In each of the sixteen lithographs from her Double Imagery series, printing elements are inverted and reversed to create a rhythmic composition from component parts. After the first printing, the irregularly shaped papers were laid atop the wet lithographs and run through the press a second time, producing a semitransparent, lightly blotted layer in a mirrored response to the original saturated impression. The varying weights and densities of color lend these works visual and spatial complexity.